OT: scripting help - can you check a string for starts with?
Tim
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Wed Dec 19 18:18:18 UTC 2007
John Summerfield:
>> the example's fine, but read again what he's looking at:-)
Tony Nelson:
> Yes, so? Your "real one" will be found also. If you think what I said
> won't work, give a counterexample. Perhaps you don't want to nest two case
> statements, one for "Produce Name:" and the other for the specific
> products? It's not really needed, as the match strings could all start
> with "Product Name:"*.
>
> case $line in
> "Product Name:"*)
> case $line in
> *"HP Compaq dc7700"*) echo "found $printername" ;;
> esac ;;
> esac
I read John's comment of the "example's fine," as saying that the
function of what the code would do was fine. But there being a bit of a
humorous dig about the OP's not looking for the name of a *printer*.
i.e. He expected you would have written something more like "found
$boardtype".
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